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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-06-15 13:32:49 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-06-20 10:56:59 +0200
commita9455408b09395ecf4008bd998516ce2e9551bbc (patch)
treeee8323f0e78f583e9ff34c1cc9cd578674a6a132 /net/wireless/nl80211.c
parent6df653c71e8168e1df01118cc85cd84d0deeb583 (diff)
cfg80211: make some functions static
Some of the functions to retrieve a device can be static as they're used only in nl80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c82
1 files changed, 82 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index a363ca17bfc..2d3541c5e05 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -70,6 +70,88 @@ static int get_rdev_dev_by_ifindex(struct net *netns, struct nlattr **attrs,
return 0;
}
+static struct cfg80211_registered_device *
+__cfg80211_rdev_from_info(struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ int ifindex;
+ struct cfg80211_registered_device *bywiphyidx = NULL, *byifidx = NULL;
+ struct net_device *dev;
+ int err = -EINVAL;
+
+ assert_cfg80211_lock();
+
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY]) {
+ bywiphyidx = cfg80211_rdev_by_wiphy_idx(
+ nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY]));
+ err = -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX]) {
+ ifindex = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX]);
+ dev = dev_get_by_index(genl_info_net(info), ifindex);
+ if (dev) {
+ if (dev->ieee80211_ptr)
+ byifidx =
+ wiphy_to_dev(dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy);
+ dev_put(dev);
+ }
+ err = -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ if (bywiphyidx && byifidx) {
+ if (bywiphyidx != byifidx)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ else
+ return bywiphyidx; /* == byifidx */
+ }
+ if (bywiphyidx)
+ return bywiphyidx;
+
+ if (byifidx)
+ return byifidx;
+
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This function returns a pointer to the driver
+ * that the genl_info item that is passed refers to.
+ * If successful, it returns non-NULL and also locks
+ * the driver's mutex!
+ *
+ * This means that you need to call cfg80211_unlock_rdev()
+ * before being allowed to acquire &cfg80211_mutex!
+ *
+ * This is necessary because we need to lock the global
+ * mutex to get an item off the list safely, and then
+ * we lock the rdev mutex so it doesn't go away under us.
+ *
+ * We don't want to keep cfg80211_mutex locked
+ * for all the time in order to allow requests on
+ * other interfaces to go through at the same time.
+ *
+ * The result of this can be a PTR_ERR and hence must
+ * be checked with IS_ERR() for errors.
+ */
+static struct cfg80211_registered_device *
+cfg80211_get_dev_from_info(struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev;
+
+ mutex_lock(&cfg80211_mutex);
+ rdev = __cfg80211_rdev_from_info(info);
+
+ /* if it is not an error we grab the lock on
+ * it to assure it won't be going away while
+ * we operate on it */
+ if (!IS_ERR(rdev))
+ mutex_lock(&rdev->mtx);
+
+ mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
+
+ return rdev;
+}
+
/* policy for the attributes */
static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY] = { .type = NLA_U32 },